Black Broderie Anglais Dress

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I have a Gala Dinner to go to and I made this dress using Burda 124B, 2/2009, to wear. The fabric is a cotton base with an organza overlay which has been machine embroidered to look like Broderie Anglais. I have read several reviews about this pattern, all saying it suits most figure types and I would think that is true. It was easy to fit and relatively simple to sew. I fully lined this dress in a cotton voile and piped the neck-line to give a nice finish as well as stopping the facing from showing. The line of daisies around the mid-drift were daisies that I removed from the left over fabric and hand sewed to the seam line.

Cotton voile is so expensive where I live, considering it’s just thin plain fabric! I can only bring myself to use it in children’s garments. My own linings are always low-end synthetic stuff. For fabric this gorgeous though, I can appreciate how you made an exception!

Cotton voile isn’t cheap here either. But I get so hot in synthetic linings, I stop wearing the dress. So for me, it is worth the extra money. Cotton voile must be more expensive to make than cotton lawn!

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